The Starry Knights held their annual Dance Extravaganza Saturday evening, Feb. 20, with dancers from SFBRHS, WHS, Dance Craze and Jo’s School of Dance performing two dozen routines.

Downtown Washington Inc. held a Reverse Parade Friday evening, Nov. 27, with floats staged on parking lots along Main, Second, Lafayette and Oak streets, so people could drive by to view them. The event drew a good crowd, and there was a bit of a traffic jam as cars lined up to drive-thru the display and wave at Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Trees of Treloar Project Creates Mini Arboretum Along the Katy Trail

This year the St. Peter’s Festival of Trees will be held at Mid-American Coaches along Highway 47 in Washington as a drive-thru experience. The price of admission will remain non-perishable food items (or a monetary donation) that will be given to local food pantries.

There’s no age requirement for philanthropy. The children of Tia and Brent Kluesner of Washington prove that. For the last four years, these five siblings, Lilian, Timothy, Octavia, Hattie and Otto, who range in age from 13 to 3, have set up a lemonade stand on the sidewalk outside of their home at the corner of Third and Cedar Streets in Downtown Washington to raise money for various charities.

The Kopmanns, who have been selling their pumpkins and other produce under the name Three Girls and a Tractor at the Washington Farmers Market and other wholesale outlets for the last several years, opened their patch to the public for the first time in September, and sales have been strong.

A new book by Robert Pauly, curator of the St. Louis Fire Department Museum, and Dennis Maag, a captain at the Mehlville Fire Protection District, with nearly 40 years of service, outlines the history of the historic St. Louis Fire Department through photos of its many stations, including three that were built in the 1800s and nine others that are more than 100 years old — all 11 are still in use today.